Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-11-17

with their tr-fmpetS We should near some of
the strains OF Antioch. and Mount Pisgnh,
and Coronation, and LPnox and ST Martins,
and Fountain, aud Ariel and Old Hundred
How they would bring 20 mind the praying
circles, and communion days, aud the Christ
mas festiva Is. and the church worship in
which en- earth we mingledl have no idea
that when we bid farewell TO earth we are 10
bid farewell 10 all these grand old Gospel
hymns which melted and raptured our souls
for so many years Now, my friends, II sin
Is discord and righteousness Is harmony, let
us get out Of the one and enter the other.
After our dreadful civil war was over, and in
The summer OF 1865, a great nttion1l peace
jubilee was held in Boston. and rs au elder OF
this church had been honored by the selcc-
ton OF some OF his music, 20 be rendered on
that occasion, 1 accompanied him to the
jubilee. Forty thousand people sat and stood
IN the great Coliseum erected for that pur-
pose Thousands Of wind and stringed in
strumenta Twelve thousand trained voices.
The masterpieces Of all ages rendered, hour
after hour, and day after day Handers
"Judas Maccabaus,n Spohrs LAST Judg-
mentn Beethovenis Mount Of Olives
jah,n Meycrbeer's sCoronation March, roll
ing on and up in surges that billowed against
uii5 heavens. The mighty cadence within
were accompanied on the outside by the
ringing Of the bells Of the city and cannon
on the commons, In exact time with the mn-
sic discharged by electricity, laundering
their awful bars OF harmony that astounded
all nations
Sometimes bowed my head and wept.
Sometimes I stood up in the enchantmsnt,
and sometimes the effect was so overpower-
ing l felt could not endure it. When all
the voices were in full chorus, and all the
batons in full wave, and ali the orchestra in
full triumph, and hundred anvils under
mighty hammers were in full clang, and all
the towers of the city rolled in their majestic
sweetness and the whole building quaked
with the boom of thirty cannon, Parepa
Rosa, with voice that will never again be
equaled on earth until the archangelic voice
proclaims that time shall be no longer, rose
above all other sounds in her rendering of
our national air, the "Star Spangled Ban
ner." It was too much for a mortal, and
quite enough for an immortal, to hear, and
while some tainted, one womanly spirit, re-
leased under its power. sped away to be with
God.
o Lord, our God, quickly usher in the
whole worlds peace jubilee, and all
nents, and all the voices and musical
instruments of all nations combine, and all
the organs that ever sounded requiem OF
sorrow sound only grand march of joy, and
all the bells that tolled for burial ring for
resurrection, and all the cannon that ever
hurled death across the nations sound TO
eternal victory, and over all the acclaim Of
earth and minstrely of heaven there will be
heard one voice sweeteer and mightier than
any human or angelic voice--a voice once
full of tears, but now full of triumph-the
voice Of Christ saying: II am Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the end, the first
and the last.n Then at the laying of the top
stone of the worlds history the same voices
shall be heard as when, at the laying of the
worlds cornerstone, 1.-THE morning stars sang
togetbAr.n